[EN] Since the beginning of the second industrial revolution, the use of tanks for the storage of petroleum products ensured the permanent supply of equipment that depended on fossil fuel derived from petroleum, either for ...
[EN] The characteristics of the envelope of a building determine, together with other factors,
its consumption of energy. Additionally, the climate zone and insulation material may vary the
minimum insulation thickness of ...
[EN] Spanish residential buildings built in the decade of the housing bubble (2000-2009) had to comply with the Basic Buildings Standard on thermal conditions in buildings. At the end of this period, the Basic Energy Savings ...
[EN] Most construction managers use deterministic scheduling techniques to plan construction projects and estimate their duration. However, deterministic techniques are known to underestimate the project duration. Alternative ...
[EN] Scope management allows project managers to react when a project underperforms regarding schedule, budget, and/or quality at the execution stage. Scope management can also minimize project changes and budget omissions, ...
[EN] Knowledge management (KM) involves learning from past experiences to avoid or correct scope misalignments, quality deviations, safety problems, time delays and/or cost overruns. KM is frequently materialized as a risk ...
[ES] La inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha posicionado como una de las tecnologías con mayor impacto
en todas las áreas de actividad, de manera que la profesión de Director de proyectos no puede
dejar de lado aspectos que ...
[EN] In Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), activity sensitivity metrics measure the importance of activities in a project schedule. Highly sensitive activities are those more likely to increase project duration variability ...
Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Skitmore, Martin; Cerezo-Narváez, Alberto; González-Cruz, María-Carmen; Pastor-Fernández, Andrés; Otero-Mateo, Manuel(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2021-08-01)
[EN] Previous research has confirmed that the distribution of bids for construction auctions can be reasonably modeled with Lognormal distribution. The location parameter of this distribution (the mean mu) has been found ...
[EN] In a globalized marketplace, the competition in the aerospace industry has increased significantly. Producers can choose between many suppliers. These suppliers have to comply with more requirements and technical ...
[EN] Organizations undertaking construction projects often deal with uncertainty and complexity. Risks include a wide range of occurrences that can lead to project failure. However, these difficulties may be minimized if ...
[EN] The increasing complexity of building projects, with high quality standards, integrated technologies and strong management restrictions, demands the intervention of numerous and diverse specialists. This requires an ...
[EN] In the COVID-19 era, a direct relationship has been consolidated between the concentration of the pollutant carbon dioxide (CO2) and indoor disease transmission. For reducing its spread, recommendations have been ...